Search Results: Titles starting with V from GEORGE HANCOCK RARE BOOKS (PBFA)

First Edition, First Issue. Octavo, etched frontispiece, vignette title page, rustic type at head of page 1, 38 plates, wood-engraved vignettes and initials in the text, all after Thackeray, the Marquess of Steyne woodcut on page 336. Published by Bradbury & Evans (London), 1848.
Finely bound in a later Cosway-style blue full morocco by Bayntun Riviere in Bath with their binder's signature to the front turn-in, the upper cover with inset hand-coloured oval portrait of Thackeray under glass, triple rule gilt border to covers, incorporating copious gilt foliate devices, spine separated into compartments by five raised bands finished in gilt, four containing gilt foliation, all edges gilt, turn-ins with gilt fillets and decorative gilt corner-pieces, marbled endpapers, red morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, two blue silk bookmarkers.
The binding is in fine condition. Internally, there is toning to some of the plates and occasional light spotting; near fine.
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A beautiful original Chromolithograph of Victoria Park in Bath, produced by T. Nelson & Sons in circa 1865, from a set of views entitled City of Bath. Thomas Nelson was established in 1798 and is still trading today under Nelson Thornes.

Unmounted; the image is 75 x 126 mm, the sheet is 105 x 165 mm.

Near fine.

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London - Summer Fashions for 1836.
A large aquatint with bright contemporary hand-colouring, beautifully mounted, framed and glazed, ready for presentation, 435 x 590 mm. Published by Benjamin Read (London and Broad Way, New York), 1836.
A truly stunning print, in fine condition, which would enhance the appearance of any room.
Benjamin Read was a professional tailor and demonstrated savvy business acumen by creating high quality prints of his stock, enabling the effective promotion of his business. Read's Regency fashion prints were in essence a highly successful advertisement, and by setting his subjects in fashionable venues, in this case the Colosseum in Regent's Park, he was able to nurture the idea of an association between his tailoring and high society.
According to Ralph Hyde, Read was initially inspired by a yearly print created by George Cruikshank, demonstrating the greatest offences against fashion at the time. Read first commissioned George Cruikshank's brother, Robert Cruikshank, however… Read More

A black and white full length portrait photograph of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, the Royal couple wearing Orders and decorations, taken at Buckingham Palace in 1960 by Anthony Buckley, Signed in ink on mount "Elizabeth R 1963" and "Philip", 29cm x 21.5cm, unframed, a little toning; near fine.
The original owner was presented with the signed photograph in his capacity as an Engineer for the British Airways Overseas Corporation on the March 1963 Royal Flight. The Photograph is accompanied with the Royal Flight menu for Perth-Sydney-Fiji-Honolulu-Vancouver-London, March 1963.
"Anthony Buckley (1912-1993) opened his first portrait studio in 1937 and he quickly gained a reputation for his portraits of leading actresses of the day. After serving in World War II, he worked from a studio on St Alban's Street and then in the 1950s on New Bond Street, when he purchased the premises and business of Janet Jevons. In the early 1950s he worked in Dorothy Wilding's London studio. His… Read More

First Edition. 8vo., Publisher's blue cloth, spine lettered in black, dust jacket; priced at 5 shillings, a small Foyles Bookseller's sticker to the front pastedown, pp. 219; plus 24 pp. of Publisher's ads. Published by Constable (London), 1934.
Expert retouches and restorations to spine, upper edge, and joints, a very slight shelf lean, three tiny tears to page edges of the endpapers and half title page. An excellent and sharp example. Near fine.
"Voyage in the Dark is something more terrible, more beautiful and more fiercely pitiful than any Jean Rhys has yet written. The book describes eighteen months in the life of a chorus girl - eighteen months during which she knows squalor, luxury, love, happiness, misery and, at the end, desperate pain. Told in the first person, the story of the struggles, forlorn gaiety and weary courage of Anna Morgan was the almost unbearable poignancy of truth unflinchingly described. The effect of being right inside the mind of this lonely girl is heightened by the… Read More